Yesterday the sad news arrived that Jurgen Rateau, co-founder and former president of Pirate Party Belgium has passed away. Our thoughts are with Jurgen's family and friends to which we send our deepest condolences.

CALL FOR ENTRIES | Public space_s The International Festival of Digital Arts in Greece invites you to submit proposals for its next edition taking place in late spring in Athens. Deadline for submissions is 4 March 2015.

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In our times, the notion of public space appears to be one of the most contradictory concepts. With the rise of network and communication technologies, our experience of public space has changed. Public space is not only characterised by physical space and architecture but also by networks and knowledge distribution. While public space is mainly being interpreted through urban planning, digital public space is organised through IP locations, URLs and protocols. Their cartographies, as distinct as they may seem, are both informed by network dynamics that add new layers of interpretation. Squares, parks, streets and the Internet are all potential public spaces that are activated through participation and engagement in order to acquire [...]

Bernard Stiegler is a French philosopher. He is the head of the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris. In 2005, he created the political and cultural group Ars Industrialis, and in 2010, also founded the philosophy school, Ecole de Philosophie d’Epineuil-le-Fleuriel.

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Merci @ColetteTronFeatured ChannelsStiegler on the Need to Develop "Cooperatives of Disciplines"

Artists Against Precarity and Violence – Resistance Strategies, Unionizing, and Coalition Building in a Time of Global Conflict and Contradiction.

The ArtLeaks Gazette aims to shed critical light on both the challenges and obstacles inherent in the contemporary art world, in order to work towards constructive and meaningful transformations. Beyond“breaking the silence” and exposing bad practices, we are exploring the ways in which art workers around the world are pushing towards changing their factories of art, embedded in larger socio-economic-political flows. We realize this is a difficult task, as the global condition since ArtLeaks was established in 2011 is quite different. The (art)world has changed and it seems that violence and hostility rule around the globe. The years to come seem like they will be even more full of conflict and contradiction. Due to the increase of global wars, the threat of climate breakdown, and other devastating realities, new media and technology are being used in a negative way, encouraging deeper precarity, austerity, and inequality. This is happening in the sector of arts and culture increasing the debt of artists and cultural workers. We believe that art workers need to formulate an answer to these challenges, to build global coalitions, and to unionize in order to counter precarity and violence in a countervailing way.

6PM YOUR LOCAL TIME (6PM YLT) is a networked, distributed, one night contemporary art event taking place simultaneously in different locations, coordinated from one central venue and documented online via a web application. After a beta test successfully organized in the United Kingdom in October 2014, the format will show its full potential on July 22, when 200+ participants from 4 different time zones will open their exhibit at the same time, documenting them in real time on the web platform 6pmyourlocaltime.com, the event’s primary venue. Curated by Fabio Paris, the event will be orchestrated by a team of collaborators from a temporary office installed in the fascinating location provided by the Castle of Brescia, where the flow of images and videos from all over Europe will be displayed in front of the audience of the Musical zoo Festival the local partner of the event. https://www.facebook.com/musicalzoo?fref=ts

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Along the upcoming months, the Link Art Center will work on sending out invitations and on finalizing the list of participants. The staff will be available to evaluate proposals from institutions, galleries and artists interested in the event, and to reply questions and requests unanswered by the information already available on the website 6pmyourlocaltime.com.

6PM Your Local Time is a format by the Link Art Center, developed in collaboration with Abandon Normal Devices (AND), Manchester and Gummy Industries, Brescia. The project is part of Masters & Servers. Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), Abandon Normal Devices (UK), Link Art Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES) that was recently awarded with a Creative Europe 2014 – 2020 grant. For 24 months from now, Masters & Servers will explore networked culture in the post-digital age.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

The event 6PM Your Local Time Europe is done in collaboration with Gummy Industries and the festival MusicalZOO, and with the support of Comune di Brescia, Fondazione Brescia Musei and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia.

We are looking for ongoing research projects to participate in a workshop associated with the AHRC funded Besides the Screen symposium PIRACY IN THEORY & PRACTICE, to be held at Coventry University, UK, on 9-10 April 2015. The workshop will be on Thursday 9th April, during the first day of the main event.

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Departing from the relation of movie piracy with the economy and politics of content distribution, the symposium means to discuss the dynamics of authority embedded in contemporary systems of communication and explore how informal media practices might intervene with the development of new technologies, frame film curating, foster or inhibit particular scholarships, and even raise questions about the ontology of the moving image.

We welcome proposals from a wide range of topics within this universe, and encourage the participation of PhD candidates and early career researchers. Participation in the workshop is free of charge (as is attendance at the symposium), but all participants must cover their own transportation and accommodation costs.

Tokyo Wonder Site is an art center dedicated to the generation and promotion of new art and culture from the heart of Tokyo.

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■Application Deadline: March 31, 2015

■Application Overview(Residency period/ Number of Applicants to be accepted):1) About 3 months from the beginning of September to the end of November, 2015/ 2 applicants2) About 3 months from the beginning of January to the end of March, 2016/ 2 applicants

Tokyo Wonder Site Residency program is the platform of creation and research for international creators in diverse fields of creation. Young emerging, middle standing, international leading creators gather and explore their ideas in the heart of Tokyo, where global creative city with multi layers of creativity from traditional culture to cutting edge technology. Tokyo Wonder Site Residency program has been organized by the partnership and collaboration with art centers and cultural institutions around the world since its establishment in 2006. We intend to strengthen the network of creators from Asia.

In contemporary Russia, where official political and cultural attitudes have become increasingly conservative, a new generation of Russian artists continue the critical tradition of the Russian Left and utopianism of the Russian avant-garde. Taking up this desire to change reality by means of art, they explore ideals of equality and social justice, radical politics, secularism and internationalism, without forgetting the long history of post-revolutionary violence. Guest curated by Boris Groys and held at both the James Gallery and e-flux exhibition space downtown, this exhibition includes the works of artists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, and New York. - See more at: http://centerforthehumanities.org/exhibition/specters-communism-contemporary-russian-art#sthash.Sb0tN0ow.dpuf

This is an open call for participating in the third edition of Spring Sessions at Hangar art production and research center based in Barcelona (Spain). The Spring Sessions are intensive and interdisciplinary meetings between artists and other professionals for developing a specific part of a larger research project.

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As previous editions, Spring Sessions #3 takes place in the framework of the Hangar’s project Grid Spinoza and the European project Soft Control. Grid Spinoza explores the processes, methodologies and dynamics of artistic and scientific research, paying attention to spaces of confluence and ways of transferring knowledge from one field to the other. The project was initiated in 2010 and it is based on an online platform that contains an open archive of articles and audiovisual interviews with artist and scientists. The project Soft Control is a platform where artists, scientists and other cultural operators open their laboratories and their research projects to a specialised and non-specialised audience. At the same time the project is a framework for artist and scientist constructively sharing knowledge and cultural models of critical thinking, activism and experimentation.

Description of the elegible projects

– General eligible criteria

Ongoing artistic, theoretical or applied research projects that include collaborative processes with other fields such as cultural studies, scientific research or technological development.

– Specific eligible criteria for Sessions de Primavera #3

This year’s edition aims to support interdisciplinary research projects raising a question that needs or looks for a collective answer. The project proposal has to include an expedition as part of the research methodology. The expedition will be developed during the residency at Hangar and will involve both artists and scientists.

We are interested in the concept of expedition as a space for the generation of knowledge outside the institution and as a place for experiencing the experiment.

DESCRIPTIONYou have a performance project that you have never been able to achieve, which never found an outlet..

It may be too specific or too daring or not politically correct enough to be programmed.It might be difficult to implement.It might be shocked.

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PLUG IN RED A data base of projects of performance during 2 years, available online. PLUG IN RED allows you to give a second chance to artistic projects that are struggling to exist elsewhere, who stayed in your drawers.

Some of these projects may exist in PLEXUS ROUGES, thematic evenings performance than RedPlexus regularly organizes in collaboration with a place (in Marseille or elsewhere). Evenings where you can test a proposition, clearing new paths.

CONDITIONSThe «abandoned» projects, ignored or misunderstood to be emailed before 15 April 2015:communication.redplexus@gmail.com

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